Leon
What an astonishingly arrogant post.
"I was the only voice of reason"
There is a flip side to that statement.
Often, not always, but often, the one voice is alone for a reason.
Airships are not the same as aircraft, so a pilot of jets has no God given right to have a better opinion.
I know nothing about airships, however I know some people who can see great potential in various roles.
Some of those people are RN and some are RAF.
Incidentally. Where do you reckon the Selex guys are from? 10:1 they are ex RAF.
The constant refrain that "it has failed before so it is obviously ****e" is thankfully ignored by the sort of people who invent things throughout history.
Even if it fails for another 50 years does not make the idea crap. Doesn't make it not crap obviously, but only time will tell, not grumpy old duffers who are set in their ways.
Same sort of people who thought that the battleship would be around forever. The cavalry charge. Bright uniforms. The samurai sword.